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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Kobayashi dismisses a complaint by a formerly jailed man against public defenders who he says did not verify his identity when he was wrongfully arrested and detained for several years on a warrant issued for a different name. The public defenders have 11th Amendment immunity. Additionally, the decision to call for a competency evaluation on the man, rather than investigate his claims of mistaken identity, was not an act of disability discrimination or legal malpractice because the man could not show the public defenders were motivated by malice. The decision is protected by conditional privilege and counts as an exercise of government discretion, as making that decision would have required the public defenders to also question the police and correctional facilities’ records.